Vera Miles

Actor Aug 23 (age 95) Boise City, Oklahoma, USA 1950–2025 (75 year career)

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Biography

Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (19…

Known For

Film

Psycho

Lila Crane

Film

The Searchers

Laurie Jorgensen

Film

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Hallie Stoddard

Film

The Wrong Man

Rose Balestrero

Film

Psycho II

Lila Loomis

Film

Into the Night

Joan Caper

Film

23 Paces to Baker Street

Jean Lennox

Film

Autumn Leaves

Virginia Hanson

Filmography

Acting (144)

Movies (76)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Separate Lives

1995

as Dr. Ruth Goldin

4.7

24 Hour Psycho

1993

as Lila Crane (archive footage)

4.0

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

1989

as Sophie Kubacki

Into the Night

1985

as Joan Caper

6.5

International Airport

as Elaine Corley

The Initiation

as Frances Fairchild

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

as Kate Keller

Psycho II

as Lila Loomis

BrainWaves

as Marian Koonan

Travis McGee

as Julie Lawless

Mazes and Monsters

as Cat

Our Family Business

as Patricia

Roughnecks

as Ida McBride

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

And I Alone Survived

as Irene Elder

Run for the Roses

as Clarissa Stewart

Fire!

1977

as Martha Wagner

6.9

State Fair

1976

as Melissa Bryant

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

1976

as Mrs. Horton

6.0

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

as Erica

The Castaway Cowboy

as Henrietta MacAvoy

Live Again, Die Again

as Marcia Carmichael

The Underground Man

as Eleanor Strom

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

as Christine Rhodes

Baffled!

as Andrea Glenn

Runaway!

as Ellen Staffo

One Little Indian

as Doris

A Great American Tragedy

1972

as Gloria Wilkes

6.7

Jigsaw

1972

as Lilah Beth Cummings

Molly and Lawless John

1972

as Molly Parker

2.8

A Howling in the Woods

as Rose Staines

Cannon

as Diana Langston

In Search of America

as Jenny Olson

The Wild Country

as Kate Tanner

Journey to the Unknown

1969

as June Wiley

It Takes All Kinds

1969

as Laura Ring

Hellfighters

as Madelyn Buckman

Sergeant Ryker

as Ann Ryker

Kona Coast

as Melissa Hyde

Mission Batangas

as Joan Barnes

Gentle Giant

1967

as Ellen Wedloe

10.0

The Spirit Is Willing

as Kate Powell

Follow Me, Boys!

as Vida Downey

One of Our Spies Is Missing

1966

as Madame Raine De Sala

The Hanged Man

as Lois Seeger

The Unknown

as Kassia Paine

Those Calloways

as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway

A Tiger Walks

as Dorothy Williams

Recoil

as Lucy

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as Hallie Stoddard

Back Street

as Liz Saxon

The Lawbreakers

as Angela Walsh

Psycho

as Lila Crane

Five Branded Women

as Daniza

A Touch of Larceny

as Virginia Killain

Incident at a Corner

as Jean Medwick

Web of Evidence

as Lena Anderson

The FBI Story

as Lucy Ann Hardesty

Beau James

as Betty Compton

The Wrong Man

as Rose Balestrero

The Searchers

as Laurie Jorgensen

The House Without a Name

1956

Autumn Leaves

1956

as Virginia Hanson

7.0

23 Paces to Baker Street

as Jean Lennox

Wichita

as Laurie McCoy

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

1955

as Jill Hardy

4.9

Man on the Ledge

1955

as Virginia

Pride of the Blue Grass

1954

as Linda

So Big

1953

as Girl (uncredited)

5.3

The Charge at Feather River

as Jennie McKeever

The Rose Bowl Story

as Denny Burke

For Men Only

as Kathy

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951

as Showgirl (uncredited)

4.1

When Willie Comes Marching Home

1950

as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)

6.8

The Screen Writer

1950

as Young Actress (uncredited)

Television (68)

Murder, She Wrote

as Elizabeth Gates

Crazy like a Fox

as Georgina Burton

Finder of Lost Loves

as Joanna Shaw

Hotel

as Teresa Clayborne

Matt Houston

Magnum, P.I.

as Joan Gibson

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

as Tora

Fantasy Island

as Martha Tate

The Love Boat

as Bess Hensinger

How the West Was Won

as Beth

McNaughton's Daughter

as Grace Coventry

Ellery Queen

as Celeste Wakefield

Little House on the Prairie

as Ruthy Leland

Movin' On

The Streets of San Francisco

Columbo

as Viveca Scott

Cannon

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

1971

as Nancy Hodges

6.3

Alias Smith and Jones

Dan August

as Carla

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Helen Wagner

Medical Center

as Dr. Gloria Hall

Hawaii Five-O

as Flora Whiting

The Name of the Game

as Marisa Cummings

Journey to the Unknown

as June Wiley

Ironside

as Barbara Jones

Mannix

as Jean McBride

Judd for the Defense

ABC Stage 67

as Adele

The F.B.I.

as Kate Burke

Run for Your Life

as Rachel Pike

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as Madame Raine De Sala

The Fugitive

as Monica Welles

The Outer Limits

as Kassia Paine

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Beth

Burke's Law

as Claudia Sutton

Arrest and Trial

as Jean Forbes

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Ann Ryker

Mr. Novak

as Sister Gervaise

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Daphne

The Virginian

as Miss Wallace

Sam Benedict

The Dick Powell Show

as Stella Calman

The Asphalt Jungle

Route 66

as Ellen Barnes

My Three Sons

as Ernestine Coulter

Bonanza

as Sarah Lowell

The Twilight Zone

as Millicent Barnes

Rawhide

as Helen Walsh

The Detectives

as Lucy

Riverboat

as Jeanette Mowbray

Startime

as Jean Medwick

Wagon Train

as Sister Rita

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as Jenny Breckenridge

6.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Jean Medwick

The Millionaire

as Merle Roberts

Gunsmoke

as Dr. Sam

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

as Virginia

5.4

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Ruth Dahlberg

Climax!

as Sally Jordan

Studio 57

as The Little Girl's Mother

City Detective

1953

7.0

General Electric Theater

as Terry

Four Star Playhouse

as Maggie

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

as Nancy Carr

7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Julie

7.2

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Lux Video Theatre

as Maureen O'Reilly